Hist 854 CORRECTED VERSION

History and Security: Modern South Asia

3:30-6:20, Fridays

Professor David Stone Office: Eisenhower 318

email: stone@ksu.edu Phone: 532-2978

This course will survey major issues and controversies in South Asian history, focusing on India and Pakistan. There is no way to cover the breadth of this field in a single semester. As a result, this course is necessarily selective. Given its place as part of a security studies program, I have chosen to emphasize those historical issues most relevant to contemporary issues of national and international security, including ethnic, national, and religious strife, state- and nation-building, the problems of democratic governance, and nuclear proliferation.

No previous background in South Asian history is assumed. That said, you will be reading in-depth monographs that do require a certain level of background knowledge, and I have include some textbook readings for background. I will discuss this further at the first class meeting.

Class meetings will be discussion-based. As you should expect in a graduate history course, the reading load is heavy and important. Make every effort to keep up with it and not to miss class meetings.

Your grade will be based on class participation and three written assignments. Given the limitations imposed by language and source material, I have chosen to assign three ten-page assignments rather than one longer assignment. The topics and due dates are specified in the week-by-week listing below. While each of the papers will grow out of readings and discussions in class, I will also expect additional reading beyond that listed on the syllabus. I will discuss this further in class.

Books for purchase (your best bet is amazon.com or bn.com)

Pradeep Barua, The State at War in South Asia

Paul Brass, The Politics of India since Independence

Jos Gommans, Mughal Warfare

Ramachandra Guha, India since Gandhi

Thomas Blom Hansen, The Saffron Wave

Robert J. McMahon, The Cold War on the Periphery

Marston and Sundaram, A Military History of India and South Asia

Ahmed Rashid, Taliban

Anthony Read and David Fisher, The Proudest Day

Stanley Wolpert, A New History of India

In addition, articles and chapters will be distributed electronically or in a course packet.

COURSE SCHEDULE:

January 18: Intro to course and to South Asia; discussion of basic concepts.

January 25: The Mughal Heritage. Reading: Wolpert, Chaps. 8-14; Barua, Chap. 2; R & F, Chaps. 1-2; Gommans, Mughal Warfare.

February 1: The Raj and Indian Nationalism. Reading: EITHER Wolpert, Chaps. 15-21 OR R & F, Chaps. 3-17; Barua, Chaps. 5-7; M & S, Chaps. 2-6.

February 8: World War II, Partition, and the Kashmir War. Reading: Wolpert, Chap. 22; M & S, Chaps. 7-9; Barua, Chap. 8 and pp. 159-166; Guha, Chaps. 1-6; R & F, Chaps. 18-epilogue.

February 15: Nehru's India. Reading: Wolpert, Chap. 23; Guha, Chaps. 7, 9, 11, 14, 17; Brass, Chaps. 1-4.

February 22: New Pakistan. Read M. Waseem, "Constitutionalism in Pakistan: The Changing Patterns of Dyarchy," Diogenes, 53:102 (2006) and ONE of the following: Ayesha Jalal, The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence; Hasan-Askari Rizvi, The Military and Politics in Pakistan, 1947-1986; ---, Military, State, and Society in Pakistan; Veena Kukreja, Military Intervention in Politics: A Case Study of Pakistan

February 29: South Asia and the World. Reading: Guha, Chaps. 8, 11; McMahon, The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan.

March 7: Indira's India. Reading: Wolpert, Chap. 24; Guha, Chaps. 17-25. Work on paper.

Paper 1: ten pages, due March 14. What explains the divergent political cultures in Pakistan and India since independence?

March 14: Three Wars: 1962 Sino-Indian, 1965 Indo-Pakistani, and 1971 Indo-Pakistani. Reading: Barua, Chap. 9, pp. 171-181, Chaps. 10-11; M & S, Chaps. 10 and 11; Onkar Marwah, "India's Military Intervention in East Pakistan, 1971-1972," MAS 13.4 (1979), pp. 549-580; Guha, Chaps. 15-16; Robert Citino, Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm, pp. 187-212.

SPRING BREAK

March 28: The Rise of Pakistani Islamism. Reading: F. Shaikh, "Pakistan between Allah and Army," International Affairs, 76.2, (Apr 2000), pp. 325-332 and Vali Nasr, "International Politics, Domestic Imperatives, and Identity Mobilization: Sectarianism in Pakistan, 1979-1998,″ Comparative Politics, 32.2 (Jan 2000), pp. 171-190 and EITHER Husain Haqqani, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military OR Hassan Abbas, Pakistan's Drift into Extremism.

April 4: The Rise of Hindu Nationalism. Readings: Brass, Chaps. 5 and 7; Guha, Chap. 27; Jaffrelot, Hindu Nationalist Movement in India, Chaps. 9-11; Hansen, READ Intro, SKIM Chap. 1 and Chap. 2 through p. 77; READ Chap. 2 from p. 77 on and Chaps. 3-5; SKIM Chap. 6; READ Chap. 7.

April 11: Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency: Punjab, Nagaland, Sri Lanka. Reading: Barua, Chap. 12, pp. 231-252; Brass, Chap. 6; Guha, Chaps. 13 and 26; article on Naxalites (packet); Sri Lanka article (packet)

Paper 2: ten pages, due April 11. To what degree do the Islamic resurgence in Pakistan and the growth of Hindu nationalism in India spring from similar sources?

April 18: Indian Economic Reform. Reading: Guha, Chap. 29; packet articles from Economist.

April 25: Problems of Economic Development. Reading: Brass, Chaps. 8-10; Guha, Chaps. 10, 26; Sen and Dreze, India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity, chaps. 1-2, 6-7 (packet).

May 2: The Kargil War and the Nuclear Balance. Reading: Barua, Chap. 12, pp. 252-264 and Chap. 13; M & S, Chap. 13; Guha, Chap. 28; P. Mehta, "India: The Nuclear Politics of Self-Esteem," Current History (December 1998), pp. 403-406; S. Ahmed, "The (Nuclear) Testing of Pakistan," Current History (December 1998), pp. 407-411; "India and Pakistan" survey, included in Economist, 22 May 1999; "India, Pakistan, and Kashmir," Economist, 19 January 2002, pp. 20-24; A. Evans, "India, Pakistan, and the Prospect of War," Current History (April 2002), pp. 160-165; "India and Pakistan," Economist, 25 May 2002, pp. 25-27.

May 9: The Taliban and Central Asian Fundamentalism. Reading: Rashid, Taliban; Chengappa article on ISI (packet).

Final papers due May 14. 10 pages in length, topic chosen in consulation with instructor.

COURSE POLICIES:

HONOR SYSTEM (language from Honor System webpage):

Kansas State University has an Honor & Integrity System based on personal integrity which is presumed to be sufficient assurance in academic matters one's work is performed honestly and without unauthorized assistance. Undergraduate and graduate students, by registration, acknowledge the jurisdiction of the Honor & Integrity System. The policies and procedures of the Honor System apply to all full and part-time students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate courses on-campus, off-campus, and via distance learning.

A component vital to the Honor & Integrity System is the inclusion of the Honor Pledge which applies to all assignments, examinations, or other course work undertaken by students. The Honor Pledge is implied, whether or not it is stated: "On my honor, as a student, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid on this academic work."

The default in this class is that ALL work will be accomplished individually, UNLESS my permission is given in advance of an assignment/quiz/exam/take-home exam/final. If you are in doubt, please ask

A grade of XF can result from a breach of academic honesty. The F indicates failure in the course; the X indicates the reason is an Honor Pledge violation.

For more information, visit the Honor & Integrity System home web page at: http://www.ksu.edu/honor

DISABILITY: Any student with a disability who needs an accommodation or other assistance in this course should make an appointment to speak with me as soon as possible.